#22: Robert Kiyosaki
The BetterLife Podcast: Wealth | Real Estate Investing | Life
Brandon Turner and Cam Cathcart
4.8 • 767 Ratings
🗓️ 7 August 2023
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Robert Kiyosaki is the legendary author of Rich Dad, Poor Dad, the #1 personal finance book of all time.
Robert founded Rich Global LLC and the Rich Dad Company to teach people the principles of cash flow, real estate, investing, and business building.
In this episode, Robert talks about financial education and empowerment, challenging conventional wisdom, fighting for free speech, and taking charge of your health and wellness.
He also speaks about:
-How the question of "What does God want done?" led him to abandon a career in music and ultimately write Rich Dad, Poor Dad
-The sorry state of financial education in schools and his concern about the influence of Marxism in American education
-Why people who did well in school often struggle in the real world
-His concern about the Federal Reserve System and how that's changed his investing strategy
-The importance of fighting back when your freedom is threatened
-How capitalism and environmentalism are not mutually exclusive
-Why a college degree is not necessary for success in business
-How men are becoming weaker and less successful while women are becoming stronger
-The importance of owning gold, guns, and gas (specifically oil)
-Preparing for the possibility of a financial crash and societal breakdown
-The one business skill you should develop to succeed in any environment, regardless of who is President
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Robert’s charitable cause:
Greenpeace, a global network that uses direct action, lobbying, research and protests to raise awareness of environmental issues.
Books mentioned in this episode:
Tax-Free Wealth by Tom Wheelwright
Cashflow Quadrant by Robert Kiyosaki
Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki
The Creature from Jekyll Island by G. Edward Griffon
Critical Path by R. Buckminster Fuller
Connect with Robert on socials:
www.instagram.com/therealkiyosaki
https://twitter.com/theRealKiyosaki
https://www.facebook.com/RobertKiyosaki/
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | People still come up to me and say, tell me what to do. |
| 0:07.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:08.0 | And I realized then people who went to school and did well, they're used to the teacher telling |
| 0:14.0 | them what to do. |
| 0:16.0 | So they come out in the real world and they're looking around for somebody to tell them |
| 0:20.0 | what to do. |
| 0:29.7 | Welcome to A Better Life with Brandon Turner. That is me, where world-class guests share their wisdom on building a better life. Join me as we explore the habits, the actions, and the beliefs |
| 0:34.4 | that have guided their journey with the aim of helping you apply those lessons to your own. Hey, it's Brandon. This episode was a live recording, so the audio is a bit uglier than maybe usual. |
| 0:55.8 | So just give you some grace, if you would, and be prepared for a truly phenomenal discussion. |
| 1:02.0 | Mr. Robert Kiyosaki, how you doing, man? |
| 1:03.9 | Thank you, thank you, thank you. Honor to be on your program, and I'm glad to see you moving on. |
| 1:09.2 | Keep doing things. Thanks, man. Well, I want to jump right into this. You know, I obviously, everyone knows you, author of a number of books. Rich Dad, Poor Dad, Being probably the most popular one that we talk a lot about. But I want to know earlier in your career. I want to go to a little bit of your story. Can you walk me back to a place earlier? Maybe where you were not world famous, |
| 1:30.2 | wealthy, like, where's the lower point in your life you could take me to? And then we can |
| 1:33.7 | broaden from there. That's a great question because I'm a very shy person. And when people |
| 1:41.4 | come up to me and they say, the life book changed your life and so many thousands |
| 1:46.3 | of people here at limitless and all this it's not why i wrote the book i mean there's some people as |
| 1:52.2 | you know who seek it they would love to have my position yeah and i didn't really want this position |
| 2:00.3 | so i understand that so I'm shy. |
| 2:03.6 | I'm always kind of running from people. |
| 2:06.6 | But I think the biggest thing when people said what caused me to do it was I think back |
| 2:12.6 | at 81, I was a student who Dr. R. Buckminster Fuller. He created the geodesic dome. |
| 2:19.3 | And I've tracked Fuller for a lot of my life since I was a kid, |
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